Since 9 months I am trying to find a good Julia plotting library, but I was not successful. So I am going back to PythonPlot.jl, the latest wrapper for the Python based matplotlib library. What does it offer that the more native Julia libraries do not offer? A combination of features that are c…

May I ask why you are not considering Makie?

I think you have a point here - matplotlib matured over many years, that is why it is so good in many cases. I also use PyPlot in many situations. Its biggest drawback IMHO besides the fact that it is not native Julia is missing 3D accelerated rendering support, and speed (due to python…). The la…

[image] ufechner7: I hope that - perhaps in a year - the Julia plotting libraries are good enough to finally replace matplotlib. A great pure Julia plotting library would be nice to have, but why is that so important for usecases covered by matplotlib? Matplotlib interface is reasonable (thr…

[image] aplavin: A great pure Julia plotting library would be nice to have, but why is that so important for usecases covered by matplotlib? Well, the installation of conda/Python in addition to Julia is something I would prefer to avoid, in particular because it can easily brake… For myself …

A comment on Makie: one plot window per plot; I often want to compare different plots or want to see a number of plots in context It’s not the default because we thought for most workflows you do not want so many windows accumulating, so you have to manually make new windows. Mayne that could b…

To point 4, I think that mouse hovering (data picking in MATLAB) is a very useful feature to have. That’s one point for plotlyjs.jl which as this as default behaviour (as discussed here ). Looks like it’s also possible with Makie but it did not look straightforward to me (MWE would be welcome). In…

Thanks for pointing that out. The keyword ticks = :native indeed helps. But the resulting layout is not so good. Example: using PythonPlot fig = figure() X = 1:10 Y = [11.28812, 11.1200048, 10.9518896, 10.7837744, 10.6156592, 10.447544, 10.279428800000002, 10.111313599999999, 9.9431984, 9.77…

Well, I use an old version of Makie for 3D plots, but I am not updating the version because the updates would brake my code a couple of times per year. So I will wait with using Makie for 2D until the 1.0 version of Makie. And is Makie able to export high quality graphics for publications?

[image] ufechner7: There are two things that I do not like: the diagram is not centred, instead there is a large margin on the right bad location of the legend, it hides one line For the first point, you have to use Measures and keyword argument to plot() function: rightmargin=-20mm For t…

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Salmon April 17, 2023, 6:42am 9

You probably know of it already but there is TernaryDiagrams.jl. I haven’t used it but from what I can see it looks like you can make pretty good plots with it already.

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